CA2RE Glasgow
Invited by Chair and HOS Sally Stewart to deliver a Keynote lecture on my Real Life Project as an example of a reframing of research perspectives in the context of Design Driven Research (DDr) which comprises various forms of research in architecture, design and the arts, in which design results are implemented as a means of generating and disseminating knowledge. This took the form of a performance lecture where I explored a call and response mechanism with the participants, punctuated the lecture with various musical composition delivered to highlight and activate the longitudinal nature of the research and ended with a series of gifts given to the participants. Working on the presentation for possible publication.
'Arguably Design driven research requires a Framing and Reframing of research territories, methodologies, behaviours and thinking more than other fields of research activity.
This demands shifts and changing in the researchers approach, dynamic and agile operations, speculative and experimental thinking, risk taking and states of vulnerability and well as assurance. Aligned with the opportunities and multiple paths design and creative practices offer, design driven research requires its own activities, sensibilities, tactics and forms of dissemination to be true to its nature(s).'
The resulting research journeys and trajectories provide experience and testament to the processes involved, the insights gained and the new knowledge with emerges, although equally rigorous and robust, can follow new and other forms, to be shared, interrogated and embraced.
CA2RE Glasgow: Framing and Reframing offers the opportunity to take a deep dive into these continuous threads, multiple standpoints and related perspectives, ambiguities and contradictions through sharing recent research work in progress and research findings.
CA2RE ( community for artistic and architectural research) continues the work begun by the ADAPT-r network, promoting creative practice and design driven research and doctoral study, and exchange across the creative disciplines. ELIA and ARENA are network partners in this.
